1st Annual Welly Lacrosse Open

1st Annual Welly Lacrosse Open

The Wellington Lacrosse Association will be hosting the 1st Annual Wellington Lacrosse Open this weekend at Rongotai College. The Wellington Swarm (senior mens representative team) will be playing against Auckland on both days, as well as mixed gender games, women's lacrosse matches, and an exhibition match involving the New Zealand National Women's Lacrosse Team (the Blax). We've got people down from Auckland and up from Christchurch for this, and everyone involved has worked really hard so be sure to come down and cheer for the Swarm. '

This open will involve the first ever lacrosse matches held in Wellington, so feel free to join in and become a part of history. The Swarm have a 2-1 record with wins over East Auckland and Waikato-Papakura at last years Auckland tournament, and our womens team features New Zealand representatives. We're also looking to recruit new players to give it a go, who knows, you might enjoy it!

Admission is free! And at least two yellow fever members play for the Swarm (including myself) so come down and support us at least

For more information, visit http://lacrosse.wellington.net.nz or feel free to PM me.


Schedule is as follows




Inaugural Wellington Lacrosse Open Weekend
Location: Rongotai College, 170 Coutts Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington.
Dates: Saturday 26th - Sunday 27th on January, 2008.
Times: 10am - 4pm each day
 
Schedule:

 

Saturday 26th of January, 2008
Rongotai College, 170 Coutts Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington

10:00Women's  North Harbour vs. Wellington11:00Mixed  Wellington vs. Auckland12:00Women's  Auckland vs. Christchurch13:00 Introductory Session13:30Mixed  Christchurch vs. Auckland14:30Men's  Auckland vs. Wellington16:30Women's  NZ National Team Exhibition Game

 

Sunday 27th of January, 2008
Rongotai College, 170 Coutts Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington

10:00Women's  Wellington vs. Christchurch11:00Women's  North Harbour vs. Auckland12:00Mixed  Christchurch vs. Wellington13:00 Introductory Session13:30Women's  North Harbour vs. Christchurch14:30Women's  Wellington vs. Auckland15:30Men's  Auckland vs. Wellington

Just across the road. Might come. If I do, I expect someone to at least lose an eye.

We've got protective gear to stop that happening these days, but if you bring along Winston Peters, we might be able to arrange something 

Unfortunately, if I did know Winston Peters, I would get first dibs on harming his person.

I'm there on the Saturday Robb!

The Open starts at 10am today (Saturday)...GET INTO IT!

Bring some money too, there's gonna be a BBQ and a raffle with great prizes such as a gym membership to Les Mills, as well as the chance to buy lacrosse gear in person (normally you have to order over the internet, bit of a hassle/expense)

the blax?????

(Note - Auckland refers to a unified rep team from Auckland, who actually field several different clubs)

Wellington's Mixed Gender team lost against a  Auckland Mixed Gender team, I think the score was 4-7 but don't hold me to that.

I think our womens team lost to Auckland as well, I got their late due to a minor emergency so missed that match.

The senior men's match, being the first ever Swarm home game, saw Wellington beat Auckland in a thrilling 12-11 victory that went right down to the final minute.

FTR such scores aren't out of the ordinary in lacrosse, it's a  high scoring game compared to football.

Tomorrow is going to be huge, with the Swarm/Auckland rematch at 1530, so if you can make it, we'd love to have you cheering us on.



"Lax" is the shortened form of the word Lacrosse, ie footy - football. Typical NZ sports name involving the colours black or ferns + Lax = Blax. The men's team don't have a name as of yet, other than "New Zealand National Lacrosse Team"

Hey Rob
yeah i came by for a look
Bloody complicated looking at first

saw that guy get flipped onto his back by the shoulder charging Aucklander- FarK!

great game tho'- was 5-4 Wgtn when i left- with a coupla beauty goals incl. the back flick AK goal that you missed, but you made a great save from a throw way out~

Lots of Americanisms- flags on the ground, time outs, interchange
but a skilled sport no doubt with similiar basic strategy of soccer

Go the Swarm eh?
Salmon072008-01-26 23:43:17

Thanks for swinging by - shame you didn't stay for the whole thing, it was really entertaining. I can speak as a spectator too, our other goalie was in town so we played a half each.

The sport does faze some people who think it's complicated, but the basic skills of catching and throwing aren't too hard, so once you have those sorted (which doesn't take that long) all it takes is practice. Plus we're pretty casual, we're not expecting the major leagues to scout us anytime soon so all we worry about is having fun, playing hard and beating Auckland haha.

I'll be there today. Eyes had better disappear or I will go home disappointed.

I'm not there today - got sunburnt so bad I can hardly move.

Just walked past, will go back for the men in half an hour. Disappointed that the sausages cost $2.

Inflation's a bitch.

Pity student loan monies don't keep up with everything else.

It's Rongotai. Half of them will get stolen, so they need to increase the price to make up for that...

Robb when are normal club days?

Club trainings on Wednesday at Marsden School in Karori, 4pm Sundays. Social throws are at Waitangi Park, 6PM Wednesday when it's still light (ie not in winter)

Just got the news - yesterday was an 11-10 win to Auckland.

Huge thanks to everyone who came by and checked us out, fingers crossed it's a good start for a great year for Wellington Lacrosse!

Waitangi Park? Where's that??

Chaffers.

Wakefield St, across the road from New World.